Broadcast by Telecare TV in Conjunction with USCCBWill Air Public Portions of Meeting November 16-18USCCB Will Post Updates on Blog, Twitter, Facebook

Coverage of Bishops' Meeting Available Via Satellite, Internet

WASHINGTON—The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) will work in conjunction with Telecare, the television station of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, NY, to provide live coverage of the U.S. Bishops’ Fall General Assembly, November 16-19, in Baltimore. This coverage will be “free to air” via satellite.

Telecare will cover the public sessions of the U.S. Bishops’ meeting, airing coverageMonday, November 16, from 1-6 p.m.,Tuesday, November 17, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,and Wednesday, November 18, 9-11 a.m.

The hosts of the event will be Msgr. Jim Vlaun, CEO and President of Telecare, Sister Mary Alice Piil, C.S.J., a noted national speaker in liturgical formation and Director of Faith Formation for the Rockville Centre Diocese, and Msgr. Robert Brennan, Vicar General of the Rockville Centre Diocese.

Television stations wishing to air this telecast are asked to contact the office of Joseph Perrone, Telecare General Manager at 516 538-8704 x 145 for transmission details and satellite coordinates. All requests must be submitted by Thursday, November 12.

Along with Telecare’s coverage, the USCCB Web page will postdocument, vote tallies and link to live streaming athttp://www.usccb.org/meetings/2009FallThe USCCB Office of Media Relations will provide Web coverage of the meetingvia Twitter ( www.twitter.com/usccbmedia )on Facebook ( www.facebook.com/usccb )and on the USCCB Media Blog ( http://usccbmedia.blogspot.com ).The Twitter handle will provide updates of the meeting’s proceedings in real time,while the blog and Facebook posts will include longer reports and photos.

I find it interesting that for the first time in 20 years, the USCCB did not contract with EWTN to broadcast the proceedings of the Bishops' Conference. I have an idea why, but my lips will remain sealed.

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Several times during the advertized broadcast timeslots, I checked both sources.

The EWTN website still had the Conference on their calendar as late as 2 pm Pacific time,but no internet feed to match.

The USCCB and Telecare websites listed start times different from EWTN,but the internet feed did not start on time.

To me, the new provider was disappointing:--connection setup took a long time,--several times the feed turned into station-off-air-snow with green camera-status messages superimposedTUNING IN TELECARETVCURRENTLY PLAYING:TELECARETV'S CAMERA[RECORDED MON NOV 16 __:__ 2009]--the concurrent viewer count I saw displayed was about 408 at best.